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• Donald Glover Defends Halle Bailey Amid The Little Mermaid Casting Backlash

  10-07-2019 21:12 via feeds.eonline.com
  Donald Glover is rallying behind Halle Bailey amid criticism over her casting in Disney's upcoming The Little Mermaid live-action reboot.Last week, debates were sparked online after...
  
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• Listen to the Sound of Love Reinvented in ‘Oklahoma!’ (Headphones On.)

  10-07-2019 21:10 via nytimes.com
  How did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
  
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• An Operatic Star Spotter Announces Its 2020 Festival

  10-07-2019 20:56 via nytimes.com
  Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now will include the one-act “Ellen West” among six works in its January season.
  
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• Independent and Standard challenge government on stake sale

  10-07-2019 20:30 via ft.com
  Parent companies argue minister missed deadline over Saudi investor’s stake
  
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• Valentina Cortese, a Leading Italian Film Actress, Dies at 96

  10-07-2019 19:59 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Cortese, who starred in over 50 films, was perhaps best known for her role as a fading, tippling movie diva in François Truffaut’s “Day for Night.”
  
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• Artur Brauner, Producer of Films on Holocaust, Dies at 100

  10-07-2019 19:38 via nytimes.com
  A survivor of Nazi persecution, he was one of Germany’s leading producers, with films like “Europa Europa” and “Babi Yar.”
  
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• ‘The Art of Self-Defense’ Review: Karate Empowers a Dweeb

  10-07-2019 19:21 via nytimes.com
  Jesse Eisenberg falls under the spell of Alessandro Nivola’s smooth-talking sensei in this small-time “Fight Club.”
  
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• The Left Behind: a chilling film that digs into the deep roots of the far right

  10-07-2019 19:07
  A working-class lad from Wales dons a pig mask and performs a horrifying hate crime in a provocative new drama. It’s time to broach the staggering rise of extremism, its creators say‘The perception of the far right in this country is outdated,” says Alan Harris, the writer of a provocative new drama, The Left Behind. “We think of skinheads and National Front marches. But things have changed – especially in terms of the online influence.”The phrase “far r
  
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• Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old

  10-07-2019 19:05 via nytimes.com
  The comic hasn’t adjusted his material for the setting: he’s still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets.
  
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• For Struggling Actors, No More Waiting Tables. The New Side Gig: Brand Ambassador

  10-07-2019 18:17 via nytimes.com
  They are the smiling (and suspiciously attractive) people at product launches. Is the job fulfilling? Not really. But it pays well.
  
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• Chinese state broadcaster hires former Ofcom director

  10-07-2019 17:55 via ft.com
  CGTN made move shortly after UK media watchdog opened an investigation
  
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• How ‘Oklahoma!’ Revolutionized the Cast Album

  10-07-2019 17:21 via nytimes.com
  It took decades for the full Rodgers and Hammerstein score to be available. But even abbreviated, the show helped build a whole new audience for Broadway music.
  
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• Freddie Jones, film actor and Emmerdale's Sandy Thomas, dies age 91

  10-07-2019 16:55
  Much-loved performer and father of Toby Jones was stalwart of British TV as well as a regular in David Lynch filmsFreddie Jones, the versatile actor who was a regular on British screens for more than five decades, has died aged 91, it has been announced. Jones was perhaps best known for his role as Sandy Thomas in the long-running soap Emmerdale. He was also the father of the actor Toby Jones.Jones’s agent, Lesley Duff, confirmed the news in a statement, saying: “It is with great sad
  
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• ‘Stuber’ Review: There’s an App for That (Riding With the Law)

  10-07-2019 16:50 via nytimes.com
  Hampered by eye surgery but in pursuit of a killer, Dave Bautista’s detective finds a partner in Kumail Nanjiani’s driver.
  
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• Valentina Cortese, Italian Film Actress, Dies at 96

  10-07-2019 15:51 via nytimes.com
  Ms. Cortese, who starred in over 50 films, was perhaps best known for her role as a fading, tippling movie diva in François Truffaut’s “Day for Night.”
  
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• Allow Beyoncé to Lift Your "Spirit" With Her New Song From The Lion King

  10-07-2019 14:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Hakuna matata because Beyoncé has gifted us with a new, uplifting anthem.To coincide with the world premiere of The Lion King, Queen Bey--who voices Nala in the Disney...
  
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• Donald Glover's Son Can't Wait to See The Lion King--But Not Because of His Dad

  10-07-2019 14:25 via feeds.eonline.com
  Donald Glover's son, Legend, is a big fan of The Lion King--but not for the reason you'd expect.The 35-year-old actor recalled his son's hilarious reaction to being asked to...
  
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• Game of Thrones prequel: no Targaryens or Lannisters – but plenty of Starks

  10-07-2019 13:33
  George RR Martin reveals new details of HBO’s forthcoming spin-off serial, which is set to star Naomi Watts and Miranda RichardsonGeorge RR Martin has let slip a few details about the forthcoming Game of Thrones prequel, revealing that while there may be fewer dragons in the HBO television show, there will be direwolves, mammoths and White Walkers.The serial, which is currently being filmed in Northern Ireland, takes places thousands of years before the events in Game of Thrones and &ldquo
  
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• 'Raw, sad, hilarious': how Rip Torn lit up TV with The Larry Sanders Show

  10-07-2019 13:16
  The Larry Sanders Show was the grand stage Rip Torn always deserved – and he held it together like a masterTo look back on Rip Torn’s filmography is to see a man accustomed to elevating material. He was a figure of unyielding gravitas in 1982’s The Beastmaster. He managed the near-impossible task of treating Robocop 3 with respect. He even handled his role in Freddy Got Fingered like it had come from an undiscovered Mamet play.However, as the obituaries are already bearing out,
  
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• Story of woman who fled California wildfire after giving birth to be made into film

  10-07-2019 12:15
  A Private War director Matthew Heineman to write and direct film set against backdrop of the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 peopleThe deadly wildfires that hit California in 2018 are to become the subject of a new film, it has been announced.According to the Hollywood Reporter, A Private War’s Matthew Heineman will write and direct a film set against the backdrop of the Camp Fire, named for its point of origin on Camp Creek Road in Butte County, which killed 85 people and destroyed the smal
  
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• De Niro and Netflix Bet That New York Can Be a New Hollywood

  10-07-2019 09:00 via nytimes.com
  The actor and his son hope to join the city’s exploding film and television production industry with a $400 million facility in Queens.
  
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• Rip Torn, cult actor and Artie in the Larry Sanders Show, dies aged 88

  10-07-2019 08:36
  Star of a string of 60s classics fell foul of Hollywood because of his temper but found a fresh lease of life in comedy, from TV’s Larry Sanders Show to the Men in Black films Rip Torn, America’s celebrated wildman actor, has died aged 88. Torn, who had been a constant presence on stage and screen since the mid-1950s, was arguably better known for his eccentric, and occasionally violent, antics when the cameras weren’t rolling – and on one notorious occasion, when they we
  
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• Rip Torn, Men in Black star and Artie in the Larry Sanders Show, dies aged 88

  10-07-2019 08:26
  Star of a string of 60s classics fell foul of Hollywood because of his temper but found a fresh lease of life in comedy, from TV’s Larry Sanders Show to the Men in Black films Rip Torn, America’s celebrated wildman actor, has died aged 88. Torn, who had been a constant presence on stage and screen since the mid-1950s, was arguably better known for his eccentric, and occasionally violent, antics when the cameras weren’t rolling – and on one notorious occasion, when they we
  
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• Scream is back! But does the horror genre need Ghostface any more?

  10-07-2019 08:00
  The slasher movie has been rebooted once again for the small screen but in 2019, it might not be quite so welcomeIn the 23 years since the release of Scream, the horror genre has both violently expanded and brutally contracted. There’s been been a wealth of films and shows populated by a variety of evils, from cursed dolls to Swedish maypole cults, but those featuring masked villains holding gleaming kitchen knives have mostly faded into the darkness. Related: Extended scares: in defense o
  
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• TV tonight: is Twitter really the world's largest porn site?

  10-07-2019 07:00
  Generation Porn looks at the impact freely accessible pornography is having on our society. Plus: Is Labour Antisemitic? Here’s what to watch tonightNot the least of the problems currently facing our stricken nation is the determination with which both main parties have set about making themselves unelectable. Not to be outdone by the Tory party turning itself into a parade of public schoolboys, Labour has embarked upon a hokey-cokey with Chris Williamson, who has been suspended, reinstate
  
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• TV tonight: is the age of free porn harming our society?

  10-07-2019 07:00
  Generation Porn looks at the impact freely accessible pornography is having on our society. Plus: Is Labour Antisemitic? Here’s what to watch tonightNot the least of the problems currently facing our stricken nation is the determination with which both main parties have set about making themselves unelectable. Not to be outdone by the Tory party turning itself into a parade of public schoolboys, Labour has embarked upon a hokey-cokey with Chris Williamson, who has been suspended, reinstate
  
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• 'Frankly, it's ridiculous!' Fleabag super-producer Francesca Moody

  10-07-2019 07:00
  She unleashed Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Edinburgh fringe. The former actor with the Midas touch tells us her recipe for a hit show‘We had wine. It was late.” Producer Francesca Moody shrugs as if that combination is where all genius lies. Six years ago, she and the director Vicky Jones read a single-page monologue by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. “Someone said we should take it to the Edinburgh fringe.” So began Moody’s journey with the skewer-tongued Fleabag, which broug
  
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• Rip Torn, an Outsize Presence Onstage and Off, Is Dead at 88

  10-07-2019 05:49 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Torn won an Emmy for “The Larry Sanders Show” and acclaim for his theater work. But he was dogged by his reputation as a troublemaker.
  
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• Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Carter Are Dripping in Diamonds at The Lion King World Premiere

  10-07-2019 04:07 via feeds.eonline.com
  Beyoncé has arrived to the world premiere of The Lion King, which means everyone can step "to the left, to the left."The superstar singer, who voices the role of Nala in...
  
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• Cameron Boyce, Disney Channel Star, Dies at 20

  10-07-2019 00:40 via nytimes.com
  He appeared in the Adam Sandler “Grown Ups” movies and the Disney Channel franchise “Descendants.”
  
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